[25] In the Introduction, the references are to the new one volume edition, 1877. Since writing my chapter on the early Arabs, Sir W. Muir has published an interesting essay on old Arabic poetry in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (xi part i. 1879).
[26] The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ of the Muslims, recited several times in each of the five daily prayers, and on many other occasions.
[27] That is, of all creatures.
[28] [‘Do we beg assistance,’ in the original ed.]
[29] God knoweth best what He meaneth by these letters.
[30] That it is from God.
[31] In the resurrection and paradise and hell.
[32] The Ḳur-án.
[33] The Pentateuch and the Gospel and other books.
[34] This chapter is held in particular veneration by the Moḥammadans, and declared, by a tradition of their prophet, to be equal in value to a third part of the whole Korân.—S.